Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

She also starred in the movie Rollerball with Chris Klein. (jeansimmons.net - a fan website) (http://www.jeansimmons.net). She had her first leading role in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale (2002). In 1989, she again starred in a miniseries version of Great Expectations, where she performed the role of Miss Havisham, Estella's adopted mother. In 2000's X-Men, she had her first major movie role as "Mystique"; she returned to the role in 2003's sequel X2: X-Men United. In these movies her costume consisted of blue makeup and some strategically placed prosthetics on her otherwise nude body. For her appearance in the mini-series, The Thorn Birds, she won an Emmy award. Professionally she has returned to using her birth name, an indication that the separation is probably permanent. in "A little night music," then took the show to London.

The couple separated in 2004. Fortunately, the screen's loss was the stage and television's gain: to glowing reviews, Simmons toured the U.S. She married actor John Stamos in 1998. By the 70s, her screen career had tapered off. Among other jobs, she modeled for the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated and for Victoria's Secret. Among her best-known leading roles are Guys and Dolls (1955), Elmer Gantry (directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks) and Spartacus, and The Happy Ending, again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination. While studying music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she became involved with modelling and eventually moved to Paris, France for more than two years. In 1950, she married the British actor, Stewart Granger, with whom she appeared in several films, successfully making the transition to Hollywood.

She was born Rebecca Romijn in Berkeley, California to parents with Dutch ancestry. In 1948, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Ophelia in Hamlet, opposite Laurence Olivier. Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (born November 6, 1972) is a former supermodel currently making the switch to become an actress. Her first major film was Great Expectations, in which she played the young Estella. She was born in Crouch End, London and began acting while still in her teens. Jean Simmons (born January 31, 1929) is a British actress.